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4. APPARATUS FOR SORTING ARTICLES IN A CONTINUOUS OPERATION, COMPRISING MEANS FOR SUPPLYING ARTICLES TO BE SORTED, MEANS MOUNTED IN POSITION TO RECEIVE THE ARTICLES FROM SAID SUPPLYING MEANS AND OPERABLE TO DISPERSE THE ARTICLES AND ACCELERATE THE SAME TO A PREDETERMINED VELOCITY, CON, VEYOR MEANS AT LEAST PARTIALLY ENCIRCLING SAID DISPERSING AND ACCELERATING MEANS FOR GUIDING THE ARTICLES WHILE THE ARTICLES ARE BEING DISPERSED BY SAID DISPERSING MEANS INTO A SINGLE FILE PROCESSION AND FOR ADVANCING THE ARTICLES IN THE PROCESSION AT SUBSTANTIALLY SAID PREDETERMINED VELOCITY ALONG A PREDETERMINED PATH, INSPECTING MEANS MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID PATH IN POSITION TO INSPECT INDIVIDUALLY THE ARTICLES IN SAID PROCESSION, SAID INSPECTING MEANS BEING DIFFERENTLY OPERATED BY DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, A PLURALITY OF RECEPTORS MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID PREDETERMINED PATH AT SPACED INTERVALS ALONG THE SAME, THERE BEING ONE SUCH RECEPTOR FOR EACH OF THE TYPES OF ARTICLES INTO WHICH THE ARTICLES ARE TO BE SEGREGATED, SELECTIVELY OPERABLE MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID RECEPTORS FOR EFFECTING DISCHARGE OF INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES FROM SAID CONVEYOR MEANS INTO THE RESPECTIVE RECEPTOR, EACH OF SAID DISCHARGE EFFECTING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO SAID INSPECTING MEANS TO BE ACTUATED IN RESPONSE TO OPERATION OF THE INSPECTING MEANS BY AN ARTICLE OF THE TYPE APPROPRIATE TO THE RESPECTIVE RECEPTOR, AND MEANS FOR DECELERATING THE ARTICLES SUBSEQUENTLY TO THEIR DISCHARGE FROM THE CONVEYOR MEANS. 